Instant capture
Save articles, essays, and reports with one click or keyboard shortcut on your laptop, or via native share sheets on your phone.
Turn the web into a durable library you can search. Save essays, reports, research papers, and reference material once, then find them again when you need them.
Free 30-day trial. No credit card required.
Save essays, reports, PDFs, and long-form articles without disrupting your reading flow.
Extracts and stores full article text so link rot, paywalls, and redesigns never erase evidence.
Query by exact phrase or vague conceptual recollection without mandatory tagging.
Revisit the raw original text behind every citation or export into your note-taking tool.
Effortless Gathering
Researchers and writers encounter valuable material everywhere: academic preprints, industry reports, long-form essays, and investigative articles. Bredbox gives you one calm place to gather it all without requiring elaborate tagging schemes.
Save articles, essays, and reports with one click or keyboard shortcut on your laptop, or via native share sheets on your phone.
Store research whitepapers, slide decks, and government PDFs right alongside web articles in a single, unified library.
Group related sources for an active project or client brief. Use tags when helpful, but never feel pressured into filing everything.
Read articles in clean typography stripped of clutter, popups, and banners. Highlight key passages and add personal margin notes.
Intelligent Retrieval
Finding information on the open web isn’t the problem. Finding the exact essay, case study, or argument you encountered three months ago is. Bredbox combines full-text lexical indexing with semantic vector search so you can locate sources by concept alone.
Search full article text, URLs, and metadata when you remember a specific term, author name, institution, or phrase.
// Exact phrase lookup
query: “Kahneman system 1 cognitive ease”
→ Matches exact terminology across all saved behavioural science essays
When you only recall the argument, metaphor, or overarching finding, semantic search locates the right piece even if you don’t share its exact vocabulary.
// Concept & argument lookup
query: “urban density effects on local economic resilience during downturns”
→ Finds: “Agglomeration Economies and Municipal Shock Absorbers (2024)”
Durable Evidence
Links break, blogs get deleted, websites reorganize their URL structures, and paywalls go up. A bookmark list becomes a graveyard of dead links over time. Bredbox stores a readable copy of the content you save so your reference library stays permanent.
When a publisher updates their CMS or an independent author takes their site down, your preserved copy remains readable in your archive.
Original URLs, publication dates, domain source names, author bylines, and add dates are saved cleanly with every entry.
Catch up on long-form reports on flights, trains, or quiet mornings without needing an active internet connection on mobile.
AI & Verification
AI tools make synthesizing, summarizing, and comparing ideas fast—but they introduce serious verification risks when disconnected from verifiable source material. Bredbox lets you ground AI assistants in material you personally chose and vetted.
Connect Claude, Cursor, or your preferred assistant via MCP to query your saved library rather than relying on noisy web crawls or hallucinated references.
Every synthesis point can be checked against the exact paragraphs, charts, and original text stored in your Bredbox reader view.
AI doesn’t replace rigorous reading, critical thinking, or editorial judgment. It accelerates retrieval across the corpus you’ve built.
Portability & Interoperability
Bredbox is designed as your dedicated reading and source collection layer—not a replacement for writing environments like Obsidian, Notion, or Zotero. Your research stays completely portable.
Download your full library as a comprehensive Pocket ZIP archive, containing CSV data, highlights, notes, and preserved article contents.
Export a universal bookmarks HTML file compatible with every modern browser and reference manager with zero formatting hassles.
Access and automate your library programmatically through the REST API, MCP server for AI clients, webhooks, and the official n8n community node.
Save essays, reports, and source material in one searchable library. Read comfortably, find anything instantly, and keep your sources behind your work.
Free 30-day trial. No credit card required.